John Smart is a developmental systems theorist
who studies accelerating change, computational
autonomy and a topic known in futurist circles
as the technological singularity (http://accelerationwatch.com).
He is president of the Acceleration Studies
Foundation (http://Accelerating.org) a nonprofit
community for research, education, consulting,
and selected advocacy of communities and technologies
of accelerating change. He co-produces the
annual Accelerating Change Conference (http://Accelerating.org/ac2005/),
an annual meeting of 350 change-leaders and
students at Stanford University, and edits
ASF's free newsletter, Accelerating Times,
read by future-oriented thinkers around the
world. He is a member of the Association of
Professional Futurists, the FBI Futures Working
Group, and on the editorial advisory board
of Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

John has a B.S. in Business from the Haas
School at U.C. Berkeley and seven years of
coursework in biological, medical, cognitive,
computer and physical science at UCLA, Berkeley,
and UCSD. He is the author of Planning A Life
In Medicine, 2005, for premedical students.
He's currently completing an M.S. in Future
Studies at U. Houston and writing his second
book, on the topic of accelerating change.
John lives in Los Angeles, CA and can be reached
at johnsmart(at)accelerating.org.